Pete Domenici: “I said yesterday that I do not recall--I have been here a few years longer than the Senator from Nevada--a situation…”

“I said yesterday that I do not recall--I have been here a few years longer than the Senator from Nevada--a situation where we would not pay for an emergency of forest fires and the damages and costs that ensued. Frankly, there are a lot of people in the West, particularly in Nevada and my State, who have seen these fires and now hear on the television that the Forest Service does not have money in its budget to pay for them. They do. They are borrowing from another account. As the Senator said and I have said, they are going to get reimbursed shortly. The sooner we do it, the sooner we keep faith with the hundreds of thousands of people in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado who have been watching. It would be good if it is sooner rather than later. While we are paying for many things, we should pay for their account also. I assume that is what you are going to try to do in the Senate.”